century — English to French

How English century is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: century in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: centuries (3 880), century (32 423). By style: everyday 175 · literary 71 · parliamentary 3 902 · legal and administrative 256 · UN documents 31 899.

siècle

Used about 33 638 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 170 · literary ≈ 68 · parliamentary ≈ 3 617 · legal and administrative ≈ 210 · UN documents ≈ 29 573). Forms: siècle, siècles.

• It's not the 19th century.

  Ce n'est pas le XIXe siècle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · #9534278 #9793915

• One is not a century with impunity.

  On n'est pas impunément un siècle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13155

• This regime has no place in the 21st century.

  Ce dernier n'a pas sa place au XXIe siècle.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1273928

• The 17th, 18th and 19th centuries

  Aux XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4578814

• Centuries of history teach us this lesson.

  Des siècles d ' histoire nous le prouvent.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23765027

depuis

Used about 3 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 3).

• The production of Bratwürste in Nuremberg is a centuries-old tradition which can be proved to go back to 1313.

  La production de Bratwürste à Nuremberg est une tradition séculaire attestée depuis 1313.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3002678

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• This is a century-old tree.

  C'est un arbre centenaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and Blabla · checked, community translation · #10288323 #7774205

• Yennayer is a centuries old tradition.

  Yennayer est une tradition séculaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #8560339 #12184763

• There are turtles that are more than two centuries old.

  Il y a des tortues qui ont plus de deux cents ans.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3436397 #977134

Grammar

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